A 2017 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, Graham Barnhart holds an MFA from The Ohio State University and served in Iraq and Afghanistan as a medic with the US Army. He is the recipient of the 2016 Jeff Sharlet Memorial Award for Veterans, the 2015 Chad Walsh prize, and was a John Ciardi scholar at The Breadloaf Writer's Conference. His work has appeared in The Beloit Poetry Journal, Diagram, The Gettysburg Review, Gulf Coast and others. Some poems are forthcoming in Horsethief, Prelude, and Waxwing.